Shannon C. Smith

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Shannon is an award-winning attorney and serial entrepreneur known for her business and bourbon acumen. She is particularly focused on ABC and TTB laws, vintage spirits laws, business formation and planning, general counsel services, business litigation, and estate planning. She is a Lawyer of Distinction, Super Lawyer, and recently a runner-up for Best of Cincinnati Lawyer. Shannon owns multiple businesses which allow her to have a unique insight into the needs of entrepreneurs. She recently started Revival – a vintage spirits shop that has thousands of vintage bourbons, gins, tequilas, vodkas, scotches, rums, and wines.

Shannon graduated summa cum laude from Morehead State University where she Captained their Division I Women’s Soccer Team – leading her team to their first-ever Conference Championship and NCAA berth. After receiving her undergraduate degree, Shannon attended Salmon P. Chase College of law and finished on the Dean’s List. After law school, she pursued the certified estate and trust specialist designation (CES). Well over a million people – attorneys and non-attorneys – provide estate planning advice; less than 1 percent of them have earned the CES designation; Shannon earned the privilege of being among the 1%.

Shannon was recently elected for her second term as a Covington City Commissioner. Outside of work, Shannon serves on the Board for Latonia Uptown, the Victorian at Riverside, OKI, and Meet NKY. She sits on St. Elizabeth Healthcare’s Patient Advisory Council and enjoys serving on the Distillate Committee for the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky Chapter of Bourbon Women and allocates time to support Mortar Covington. She is a Leadership Northern Kentucky Graduate and a member of the inaugural class for the Roebling Society, a group of the regions’ best and brightest based on her achievements and leadership in the community. When she is not working or serving, Shannon continues to enjoy playing soccer and running Obstacle Course Races (OCR). She most recently qualified and competed in the OCR World Championships in Canada. Shannon continues to play soccer today for fun but enjoyed a long career which culminated with a professional stint in Europe in the Champions League, ultimately playing for the #1 team in Spain.

As you have read, Shannon has always been committed to excellence in the classroom, soccer field, and workplace – and she now applies that same commitment to her law practice. She prides herself on the firm’s commitment to excellence: excellent legal service and excellent customer service. The slogan of the law offices truly reflects her approach to her practice, “Client Focused. Results Driven.”